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whitearrow · 12-03-2009, 06:40 PM

Hi,

I bought a couple of books from Loose ID. They are non-drm'd mobipocket format. I want to update the author's name (metadata showing none), change the titles to reflect it's a series, and set the cdetype to PDOC so they will show under personal docs on my K2. I can't seem to make any changes at all to these files, though, without corrupting them, making them unreadable in the desktop mobi reader and on the Kindle.

I entered the following on mobi2mobi cmd line, trying just to fix the author:

C:\Program Files\MobitoMobi>mobi2mobi book1.prc --outfile book2.prc --author "Smith, Jane"

Names are changed

Here's the output:

Database Name: Series - Book 1
Version: 0
Type: TEXt
Creator: REAd
Seed: 0
Resdb:
AppInfoDirty:
ctime: -1968466898 - Sun Jan 0 00:00:00 1900
mtime: -1968466898 - Sun Jan 0 00:00:00 1900
baktime: -2082844800 - Sun Jan 0 00:00:00 1900
---------------------------------------------------
FIRST IMG Record Id: 7307383
---------------------------------------------------
Image record index: 119 (150 x 225)
START IMAGE INDEX: 119
COVER IMAGE INDEX: 119
PDHEADER Version: 2
PDHEADER Length: 240118
PDHEADER NRecords: 118
PDHEADER Recsize: 2048
PDHEADER Unknown: 67643
LASTID: 7307383
-----------------
EXTH setting data: author - 100 - Smith, Jane - 0x4d796b6c65732c204a6574
EXTH add: author - 100 - Smith, Jane
MOBIHDR: imgrecpointer: 119
EXTH setting data: author - 100 - Smith, Jane- 0x4d796b6c65732c204a6574
EXTH add: author - 100 - Smith, Jane

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Can anyone see what might be going on? I've done this before and haven't had this kind of problem.

I also tried exploding the mobi file with mobi2html in order to recreate the book, and that didn't work, either. It yielded a 1 kb blank html file and the cover image.

Thanks.

12-03-2009, 06:40 PM	#1
whitearrow Guru Posts: 808 Karma: 2260766 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Kindle Oasis 2	Problem updating metadata (using mobi2mobi command line and gui) Hi, I bought a couple of books from Loose ID. They are non-drm'd mobipocket format. I want to update the author's name (metadata showing none), change the titles to reflect it's a series, and set the cdetype to PDOC so they will show under personal docs on my K2. I can't seem to make any changes at all to these files, though, without corrupting them, making them unreadable in the desktop mobi reader and on the Kindle. I entered the following on mobi2mobi cmd line, trying just to fix the author: C:\Program Files\MobitoMobi>mobi2mobi book1.prc --outfile book2.prc --author "Smith, Jane" Names are changed Here's the output: Database Name: Series - Book 1 Version: 0 Type: TEXt Creator: REAd Seed: 0 Resdb: AppInfoDirty: ctime: -1968466898 - Sun Jan 0 00:00:00 1900 mtime: -1968466898 - Sun Jan 0 00:00:00 1900 baktime: -2082844800 - Sun Jan 0 00:00:00 1900 --------------------------------------------------- FIRST IMG Record Id: 7307383 --------------------------------------------------- Image record index: 119 (150 x 225) START IMAGE INDEX: 119 COVER IMAGE INDEX: 119 PDHEADER Version: 2 PDHEADER Length: 240118 PDHEADER NRecords: 118 PDHEADER Recsize: 2048 PDHEADER Unknown: 67643 LASTID: 7307383 ----------------- EXTH setting data: author - 100 - Smith, Jane - 0x4d796b6c65732c204a6574 EXTH add: author - 100 - Smith, Jane MOBIHDR: imgrecpointer: 119 EXTH setting data: author - 100 - Smith, Jane- 0x4d796b6c65732c204a6574 EXTH add: author - 100 - Smith, Jane ------------------ Can anyone see what might be going on? I've done this before and haven't had this kind of problem. I also tried exploding the mobi file with mobi2html in order to recreate the book, and that didn't work, either. It yielded a 1 kb blank html file and the cover image. Thanks.